<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MHonArc Resources: LOCKFILE</title> </head> <body> <em><a href="../resources.html#lockfile">MHonArc Resource List</a></em> | <a href="../mhonarc.html">TOC</a> <hr> <h1>LOCKFILE</h1> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Syntax</h2> <dl> <dt><strong>Envariable</strong></dt> <dd><p> <code>M2H_LOCKFILE=</code><var>name</var> </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Element</strong></dt> <dd><p>N/A </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Command-line Option</strong></dt> <dd><p> <code>-lockfile </code><var>name</var> </p> </dd> </dl> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Description</h2> <p>LOCKFILE is the name of the file used to create a lock on an archive. The file is used in the archive directory to signify that a MHonArc process is accessing the archive, and any other MHonArc process will wait until the lock is released. </p> <table border=0 cellpadding=4> <tr valign=top> <td><strong><font color="red">WARNING</font></strong></td> <td><p>You should not override the default name unless absolutely necessary, and you are confident about what you are doing. </p> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Default Setting</h2> <p><tt>.mhonarc.lck</tt><br> <tt>mhonarc.lck</tt> (Windows/MSDOS)<br> <tt>mhonarc_lck</tt> (VMS)<br> </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Resource Variables</h2> <p>N/A </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>None. </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Version</h2> <p>1.2 </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a href="lock.html">LOCK</a>, <a href="lockdelay.html">LOCKDELAY</a>, <a href="lockmethod.html">LOCKMETHOD</a>, <a href="locktries.html">LOCKTRIES</a> </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <address> $Date: 2002/04/01 20:37:31 $ <br> <img align="top" src="../monicon.png" alt=""> <a href="http://www.mhonarc.org/" ><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br> Copyright © 1998-2000, <a href="http://www.earlhood.com/" >Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc@mhonarc.org" >mhonarc@mhonarc.org</a><br> </address> </body> </html>
